Leaked Galaxy Fold pops up in a video with a significant seam

Samsung’s first foldable Galaxy phone is still more than a month away from launch, but as tends to happen, it looks like someone has gotten their hands on one early. It’s unclear if the one appearing in a phone unlocker’s YouTube video is a retail ve…

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March 15, 2019

Google filed a folding phone patent application, too

Does a patent application mean a company is particularly serious about a technology? No.

Is every company that makes a phones at least toying around with a folding model? Yes, probably.

It’s tough to know from a series a crude drawings and technical details filed with the USPTO how seriously an individual company is taking these plans. Honestly, most companies are understandably most likely taking a wait and see approach to the tech.

A new patent application spotted by Patently Mobile likely falls into the the latter camp. Google, after all, outsources a lot of its Pixel and other hardware to other device [...]

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March 6, 2019

Samsung’s Galaxy Fold could lead to two more folding phones soon

If you, for some unknown reason, thought Samsung’s flexible device rollout would stop with the Galaxy Fold then we have bad news. Bloomberg cites unnamed sources saying that the company is already working on a pair of follow-up smartphones, with one…

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March 5, 2019

Corning is working on truly foldable Gorilla Glass

Foldable phones arrived in a big way over the last month, but there’s a fundamental problem that they haven’t quite figured out. The buzzworthy phones introduced at Samsung’s Unpacked and MWC aren’t truly foldable; they’re bendable. The good news is…